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This project's primary aim is to encourage high school biology students to
use a scientific approach to evaluating environmental health concerns.
The strategy is to offer teacher professional development activities that
incorporate an epidemiologic approach to teaching about environmental
health science in high school biology classes. Forty-five Maine biology
teachers will be provided with training via 3-week summer sessions, held
at a medical research institute whose activities focus on preventive
medicine. These sessions will combine lectures, health science library
research, and interactive workshops that provide teachers with a knowledge
base about epidemiologic principles and then work on specific examples of
environmental health issues whose investigations make use of these
principles. All participants will receive training sessions in the use of
electronic communication tools that can be used to maintain contact with
the project scientists and other staff. It is expected that
teacher-driven, field-tested curriculum materials will be developed as a
result of the project. This project is supported by grant R25 RR12328 from the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) Program, National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, DHHS. |
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